‘Meningo victim’s family not placed under quarantine’
THE family of the 50-year-old laborer in Danao city who died of meninggococcemia at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) is not under quarantine, the Regional Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (RESU-7) said yesterday.
Marlon Peralta of the Danao City Health Office environmental sanitation division, said no other case of meningococcemia was recorded in Danao City.
“We have provided antibiotic prophylaxis to the family members,” Peralta said.
The patient was a crane operator in a cement company in Danao City who is married with children.
RESU-7 and the Danao City Health Office are conducting contact tracing to determine who else had contact with the patient. The patient had fever last Aug. 14, two days before he died.
“He even had convulsions while he was at his workplace. He also suffered headache and muscle pains,” Peralta said. The 50-year old patient was unable to work last Aug. 15.
He couldn’t walk and showed other symptoms of the virus. He was brought to the district hospital and was then transferred to VSMMC.
The family has been under observation for 12 days after the patient’s death. So far, none of them showed symptoms. Peralta and their team visited the patient’s home and sprayed it with disinfectants.
“We conducted a community assembly last week in the barangay and discussed what meningococcemia is all about and its preventive measures,” he said.
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